Deworeaic; atc,
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
—Only forty-three days until Christ-
mas. Are you getting ready?
—~ Centre county roads were never in
better condition than they are right now.
—Making hay in November is a novel
sight in Centre county, but it is one that
can be seen any day now.
—Mr. BRYAN’S peace campaign is cal-
culated to promote peace everywhere
but in the Democratic party.
——Anyway the King of England never
entered into competition with Buffalo
BiLL and THEODORE ROOSEVELT as a
broncho-breaker.
—In thirteen days the peace loving
people of America will do what all the
death dealing devices of the Allies have
thus far failed of doing: take turkey.
—With mutiny among the Bulgarian
armies and mutiny among the King’s
subjects in India the warring factions
abroad are finding their troubles multi-
plying far too rapidly for their already
deranged peace of mind.
—The government has probably kept
a few carbon copies of those notes to
Germany so that, with a few erasures,
they will do to forward to Austria, the
latest of the foreign countries to indulge
in torpedoing unarmed passenger vessels.
—The French government is meting
out salty sentences to army contractors
who have been found guilty of over
charging. Strange as it may seem, there
are always and in all lands such human
vultures as fatten on the distress of their
fellows.
—To those who didn’t win at the last
election we dedicate an announcement
published in another column of this edi-
tion at the request of the county Suffrage
association. Read it, you disappointed
friends, and absorb some of the hopeful-
ness that the ladies display.
—Anyway the forthcoming session of
Congress will have the opportunity of
showing to the world whether Mr. A.
MITCHELL PALMER was, or was not, all
there is to the government at Washing-
ton. It was generally conceded that
MITCH, at least, thought he was.
—Every German regiment has a chi-
ropodist in its ranks. Now when the
Grand Duke was in command of the Rus-
sian armies there was nothing to indi-
cate that he needed any such function-
aries. If his feet had been in any better
condition than they were he might have
been running yet.
—The death of former Sheriff B. F.
SCHAEFFER calls to mind how rapidly the
men who counted in the early days of
the county are disappearing. Only a
few of them are left and none of them
stand for more than the rugged, whole-
souled, honest man of Nittany valley,
who has just passed. The world meets
so few men of his type that it sets special
value on their citizenship and that is
why the regret is so genuine and so gen-
eral that Sheriff SCHAEFFER'S work is
done.
—NAwaAB, Sultan UL MULK, the Ni-
zam of Hyderabad, India, has been de-
posed. We don’t mention the matter be-
cause we are in sympathy with the gen-
tleman concerned or the English govern-
ment, whose staunch supporter he was.
It is interesting to us merely because
there are people who believe there is
something in a name. To them we re-
fer that of NAwaB, Sultan UL MuLK,
the Nizam of Hyderabad, with tbe
thought that mayhap they will find pleas-
ure in figuring out what is in it.
—The President quotes very fully
from the prophet EZEKIEL in support of
his “preparedness” program, or rather
in support of his own position as “watch-
man.” “If the watchman warns and the
people heed not then their blood is on
their own heads; but, if the watchman
does not warn then their blood is upon
his head.” Following out the analogy it
seems to us that the President has done
his full duty, for he has already “warned”
so that his responsibility is ended. If
the people of this land see no “danger”
then there will be no increase of our de-
fensive operations. If they do see it
there will be millions spent in coast de-
fenses and naval enlargement. Which-
ever view prevails the President, by his
apt quotations from the Bible, has dis
charged himself from responsibility for
its results. "
—Governor BRUMBAUGH spoke at State
College upon the occasion of the Penn-
sylvania day celebration, last Friday.
Among other things he told the students
of that growing institution was this:
“The finest contribution you can make
to State College and the Commonwealth
which nurtures this college is to lend
yourselves to a useful career. If you
work hard, and pray together, you can
make Pennsylvania the sweetest, holiest
place in which children shall be born and
men and women live.” What beautiful
sentiment, what exquisite demagogy from
a Governor who did so little to encour-
age the Commonwealth to “nurture” its
educational offspring and who went to
Philadelphia to advance the cause of the
Mayoralty candidate of the rottenest
political ring the Commonwealth has.
Fine theorist is BRUMBAUGH but as a
practitioner of his high sounding phrases
he has the backbone of a jelly fish.
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STATE RIGHTS AN
D FEDERAL UNION.
VOL 60.
BELLE
NO. 45.
Last Cry of Calamity Silenced.
The only source of supply which re-
mained to the calamity howlers has been
finally shut off. A statement issued on
Monday by the bureau of foreign and
domestic commerce dealt the fatal blow.
It shows that both in exportsand imports
our trade with South America has prac-
tically doubled. In September of this
year, for example, our imports from
South American ports amounted to $30,-
052,765 and our exports to the same ports
aggregated $16,938,717. In September,
1914, the totals were imports $15,858,234
and the exports $8,288,881.
This improvement can hardly be as-
cribed to the European war. There were
no war implements or war munitions
either in the exports to or the imports
from those ports. Possibly the oppor-
tunity for trade would not have been
presented if there had been no war in
Europe for well established trade rela-
tions are not easily disturbed. But the
fact that we were able to take advantage
of the opportunity refutes the cry of
calamity which is the burden of the
claim of the Republican machine for res-
toration to power and control of the
policies of the government.
If the DINGLEY tariff law or the PAYNE-
ALDRICH measure had been in force when
the European war began the opportunity
to take this trade would have been taxed
out of existence. For a time commerce
with all countries would have been
paralyzed just as it was under the exist-
ing law, because the menace of capture
kept ships from sailing. But the moment .
conditions adjusted themselves we were '
ready to invite trade because the reduced
tariff schedules had removed the prin-
cipal barrier to commerce with the neu-
tral nations of the world. :
When the war ends commercial rela-
tions between the United States and
South America will have been firmly
fixed and enduring. Of course the bellig-
erents will try to recover the business
they enjoyed previous to the disturbance
and will offer every inducement to secure
the trade. But so long as our economic
policy makes for international commerce
we will hold the trade acquired within
the past year and add to it immensely.
There will be no oversupply or under
consumption then for we will have the
entire world for our market.
——Editors who feel that it is neces- .
sary to pick flaws in President WILSON’S
speeches have a hard task before them.
President WILSON's thinks so accurately
and expresses his thoughts so clearly
that criticsing his speeches is like the
“gnawing a file.”
Coming to the President’s View.
After a heart-to-heart talk with the
President, Representative CLAUDE KITCH-
EN, of North Carolina, majority floor
leader of the House, has modified his |
opposition to the program for strength-
ening the defensive facilities of the coun-
try. Mr. KITCHEN is an able and exper-
ienced Congressman and has his own
opinions upon public questions. But he
understands that the country favors the
administration plan for increasing the
naval and military forces and it is neith-
er wise nor politic to set up a factious
opposition to public sentiment.
doesn’t relinquish his personal convic-
tions. He will not vote for the measures.
But he will not disturb the party har-
mony through pride of opinion.
In the last Congress the Democratic
floor leader, OSCAR UNDERWOOD, now a
Senator, opposed some features of the
President’s;program. He was particular-
ly averse to the repeal of the law ex-
empting American ships from payment
of tolls in passage through the Panama
canal and the Speaker of the House,
CHAMP CLARK joined him in the opposi-
tion. Both gentlemen spoke and voted
against the repeal but their personal
friendship with the President was not
severed upon that account. Of course
the President would have been glad to
have the support of such influential mem-
bers of the party in his plans. But he
was broad enough to recognize their right
to opinions and fair enough to permit the
full expression of them.
The President's plan for strengthening
the defenses of the country are in ac-
cord with the views of the people and
express the conservative thought of the
electorate. The opposition will dwindle
as the sentiments of the people are given
expression through the press and other
agencies of communication. That friends
of the President differ with him will
s Srp 5 wr |
make no difference in his relations with
them so long as the difference is express-
ed in a kindly way. But if fight in the
spirit of bitterness is provoked it will be !
a quarrel to the end.
——The French Chamber of Deputies
voted 515 to one in favor of continuing
the war. That lonely chap must be a
“peace-at-any-price” statesman.
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Lansing’s Note to Great Britain.
Every thoughtful American citizen
must feel a thrill of pride upon reading’
the note of protest, recently dispatched
i by Secretary of State LANSING to the
| British foreign office, in relation to the
i obstruction of neutral commerce by Eng-
| lish warships. It is in every respect a
| most admirable state paper. Without
the least exhibition of temper or any
show of irrascibility, Secretary LANSING
' points out the evils involved and the law-
lessness of the processes by which in-
juries were inflicted. He makes no
| threats but frankly reveals his under-
standing of the subject, emphatically
assumes the “task of championing the
integrity of neutral rights,” and declares
that the United States government “will
devote all its energies to that task.”
It may be said that a vast majority of
the people of this country are in sym-
pathy with the allies in this world war
against the spirit of militarism as em-
bodied in the policies of the German Em-
pire. But wanton insults and grievious
injuries are as intolerable coming from
one source as another. Germany offend-
ed in the slaughter of women and chil-
dren by means of submarine activities
"and the administration at Washington
justly demanded reparation. Great Bri-
tain has offended in another form and
Secretary LANSING demands redress.
Thus the absolute fairness of our gov-
ernment is asserted and the righteous-
ness of our purpose maintained. ‘All
belligerents must obey the law in dealing
with the government of the United States.
The correspondence between the gov-
ernment at Washington and that of Lon-
don on the subject of international obli-
gations has been in progress since last
January so there has been no precipitancy
"in reaching the conclusion expressed in
the note just made public. Every phase
| of the subject was analyzed with scrup-
!ulous care, every cause of complaint
| weighed accurately. And after such
mature consideration of the points in-
{ volved his majesty’s government has
been warned against future violations of
the laws of the nations, to the detriment.
of the rights and interests of the people
- of the United States, in manner and lan-
.guage which admits of no misconstruc-
tion. All belligerents look alike to us
! and must be equally circumspect.
——Governor-elect MCCALL, of Massa-
chuestts, is no talked of as an available
Republican candidate for President. But
it will never go farther than talk. While
McCALL was in Congress he was in a
constant fight with his party machine
and the leaders who frequently suffered
from his keen shafts and logic and sar-
casm will never help him into the White
House.
Labor Conditions and War.
An esteemed Philadelphia contempo-
rary having become alarmed because of
‘an imaginary “labor famine,” recently
addressed a more or less absurd note of
inquiry to a number of employers of la-
bor and a few of the labor leaders in the
country. “Will you kindly,” the note
reads, “send us your candid opinion of
the labor market outlook? Is there dan-
ger of a genuine labor famine if the war
continues for another year or two?” Of
course the answers express widely diver-
gent views on the subject but contain
little information of value.
The first answer and probably the most
amusing is that of Judge ELBERT H. GaA-
RY, head of the Steel trust. “The ulti-
mate effects of the war upon labor con-
ditions in the United States,” he says
ponderously, “will be far reaching and
well worth profound consideration.”
Then he proceeds to plead for tariff taxa-
tion as the panacea for this and all oth-
er evils. SAMUEL GOMPERS, president of
: the American Federation of Labor, says
it would be impossible to answer the
questions and JOHN MITCHELL, formerly
' president of the United Mine Workers,
declares that “there is no cause to fear a
‘labor famine.” JoHN P. WHITE, now
head of the United Mine Workers, be-
lieves the labor supply is far above the
demand.
But Judge GARY must have tariff taxa-
tion. He probably discerns in the in-
creased industrial activity vast oppor-
| tunities for graft in high tariff schedules.
~ But he fails to indicate how such a poli-
cy would benefit the wage earners.
' There never has been and never will be
a tariff tax on labor. That can come
, With the freedom of the air. The tax is
always levied upon the product of labor
and the employers grab it all, leaving
the laborers to the free competition for
jobs that comes from an unrestricted
and unprotected market. ‘
——Of course game wardens are nui-
'sances but those hunters who shot and
“killed one near Hazelton the other day
adopted a poor remedy for the evil. A
better plan is to obey the laws and the
game wardens will then have little to do.
Chairman Morris’ Cheerful Prediction.
. Mr. RoLAND S. MORRIS, chairman of
the Democratic State committee, gives us
| the cheering information, in an open let-
ter which he proposes to distribute broad-
i cast throughout the State, that President
| WILSON will be re-elected next year by
two million majority. He reaches this
gratifying conclusion by an analysis of
the votes of various States outside of
Pennsylvania. This State, unhappily,
contributes little toward the structure of
hope Chairman MORRIS has builded. But
then this State didn’t do much toward
| the election of WILSON three years ago.
‘The reformers in control of the party
organization were too busy picking out
(offices for themselves to accomplish
| much in the shape of victory.
| Chairman MORRIS, according to the
; best information attainable, didn’t have
!much to do with the improvement in
conditions of which he speaks so enthu-
siastically. He wasn’t at home on elec-
| tion day and did not vote at all. But
there are a good many other Democrats
in Philadelphia who didn’t vote for the
| reason, probably, that the few Demo-
| crats who had obtained nominations do
' not belong to the select coterie of which
Mr. MORRIS is the leader. Those gentle-
men vote only when the candidates are
servile followers of a rather exclusive but
not very numerous group and that group
was not in popular favor among the
working Democrats of Pennsylvania this
year.
Good news is welcome, however, what-
ever its source and we can readily con-
cur in Chairman MORRIS’ opinion that
WooDROW WILSON will be re-elected next
year by an overwhelming majority. But
he will not be indebted to the office
i brokers and political hucksters in this
State who appear to have buncoed him
three years ago and betrayed him at
every opportunity since. He will be re-
elected because his administration has
been just and his policies right. He has
been a faithful servant of the people
and they will manifest their appreciation
of his great services to the country by
re ¥lecting him by an ample majority. It
‘may be predicted, moreover, that it will
be harder to bunco him after that.
When the Plum Tree is Shaken.
When the newly elected county officers
are sworn in on the first Monday in Jan-
uary there will be a general shaking of
the plum tree, and inasmuch as most of
the new officials are Republicans there is
sure to be quite a number of changes.
Judge-elect Henry C. Quigley has selected
Miss Winifred M. Gates, who for a num-
ber of years past has been stenographer
for himself, Mr. Keller and Mr. Mitchell,
as his private stenographer, and in addi-
tion he will have the following appoint-
ments to make:
One court stenographer.
One good man for court crier.
One court messenger.
Five or six tipstaves.
Five men on - the Board of Road and
Bridge viewers.
A stenographer for same.
A probation officer for the juvenile
court.
A stenographer for the same.
Other appointments which are tobe ex-
pected through the change of officers
are: :
One deputy sheriff and sheriff's at-
torney.
One deputy treasurer.
One deputy recorder.
One deputy register, though it is quite
probable that Miss Anna Nolan will be
retained in that position.
Inasmuch as the old board of county
commissioners were re-elected there is
hardly any likelihood of any changes
being made in that office or in the jani-
tors of the court house.
——The WATCHMAN is in receipt of an
invitation to attend the third Pennsylva-
nia welfare, efficiency and engineering
conference to be held in the hall of the
House of Representatives at Harrisburg
November 16th to 18th inclusive. The
conference has been called for the pur-
pose of familiarizing the public and the
various departments of the State govern-
ment with the work of the separate de-
partments which have to do in a respon-
sible manner with State engineering
projects, natural resources and industries.
——The country is suffering from a
shortage of one dollar bills according to
treasury officials at Washington. Some
of us have reason to complain 'of short-
age of other denominations. We ‘notice
a scarcity of tens, twenties, fiftys and
hundreds as well as ones. and thousands
but don’t see how appeals to the govern-
ment will remedy the evil.
Brother BiLL VARE has taken his new
Mayor to a Southern resort on exhibition
and hopes to show his Governor as an
additional attraction.
FONTE, PA.. NOVEMBER 12, 1915.
Might Prove Costly.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
Washington dispatches to the New
York World allege that the administra-
tion is preparing to discipline Majority
Leader Claude Kitchin in case that
gentleman shall hold out against the
“preparedness” program which is to be
submitted to Congress next month. The
story goes that a caucus of the House
Vemocrats will be called for the purpose
of rescinding the action of the former
caucus in conferring the majority leader-
ship on the distinguished and resourceful
North Carolinian.
This will mean a merry war indeed, if
it shall be attempted. It seems incredi-
ble, however, that matters will be per-
mitted to go so far. For the administra-
tion to bring on such a fight on the very
eve of a Presidential election would be
in the last degree imprudent.
It may be that the preparationists figure
that the mere threat of discipline will be
enough to bring Mr. Kitchin into line.
But, if this is the calculation, it is obvious-
ly based on a false estimate of the char-
acter and quality, the courage and con-
sistency, of the majority leader. Tho
who know Mr. Kitchin best would be the
last to think him capable of yielding his
convictions. That he will be strengthen-
ed in his resolution by election results in
Massachusetts and elsewhere last Tues-
day may safely be assumed. Those re-
sults rather clearly indicate that “pre-
paredness” has not caught the popular
favor it was expected to command. The
defeat of Governor Walsh on a “pre-
paredness” platform in Massachusetts is
especially significant and it may tend to
dampen the ordor of some of the enthu-
siasts who were counting on the issue to
swing the country over with a whoop to
the support of a program that would
enormously add to the tax burden it is
already bearing.
It is rather tobe hoped that President
Wilson is being misrepresented by the
New York papers in this matter. The
disciplining of Claude Kitchin might
prove to be a costly piece of business.
War and Immigration.
From the Washington Star.
Are the tables being turned on us? In
times past some tall promises and de-
scriptions were circulated in Europe to
assist emigration to this country. Mon-
ey grew on trees in America. One had
only to reach up and pluck it. Land was
to be had for the asking. Jobs with fat
wages attached stood on street corners
ing to be taken. .A boundless and
inexhaustible paradise’ was to be found
just across the Atlantic. Railroad and
steamship agents grew eloquent with the
theme.
Now, as we see, Europe is made to
beckon to America. And the appeal is
both sentimental and material. Europe-
ans in this country are urged to return
to their old homes and help restore what
the war has ravaged. Patriotism calls.
Besides, there will be money in it. Hence-
forth the poor man will have a chance
in Europe. It will no longer be possible
to keep him down over there. The old
oppressive order is passing and there will
be a good deal for him in the new order.
We must wait for the war to close and
the new order to manifest itself before
this question can be settled. The war is
affecting so much, reaching so far, fore-
casts about anything are of doubtful val-
ue. Not improbably, however, America
will continue to be the bourne of Europe-
ans of an adventurous turn, who in mak-
ing a change of field want to settle in
the most rewardful field in reach.
The Fall of Nish and What Next.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
The Bulgarians are in Nish and the
Serbian capital is in the automobile, as
long as the roads allow, and after that in
the saddle.
Nevertheless Serbia is not yet con-
quered. Winter weather may soon be
expected to check aggressive operations
in that mountainous country but not on
lines nearer to the Aegean coast. The
reported defeat of the Bulgars by the
Serbs, with French and British assist-
ance, at Babuna Pass, and also by the
French at Valandovo which is far to the
southward of the pass, on the other side
of two mountain ridges and a valley in-
dicates considerable peril for two separate
columns of Bulgarian invaders. It would
not be surprising if southern’ Serbia~—all
that part which lately belonged to Tur-
key—would be recovered from the Bul-
gars before the Teutonic advance can
reach that part of the war front.
More important, however, are intima-
tions of a further expansion of the Bal-
kan war zone. Kitchener has left Eng-
land on a special mission to the Near
East which cannot be referred to the
political and diplomatic situation in
Greece, for Kitchener is neither a politi-
cian nor a diplomat.
Will Be His Time to Feel Sorry.
From the Chicago News.
One feels sorry for General Villa, but
if he takes to slaughtering Americans
out of pique over his failure to receive
recognition, one may be sorry that one
was sorry.
Beastly Horses are So Rough?
From the Indianapolis News.
The next time King George visits the
troops in the field he had better go in an
automobile, which is reasonably certain
to remain steady in the face of ali sorts
of cheering.
Never Lasts That Long with Us.
From the Boston Globe.
The assistant treasurer of the United
States is credited with saying that the
average dollar bill ‘lasts about three
weeks, but isn’t that a misprint for min-
utes?
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Lewistown taxpayers have authorized the
borrowing of $100,000 for the purpose of erecting
a new high school building of the modern type.
—Leslie Watkins, former treasurer of the
Johnstown Eagles, who disappeared ten days
ago and who is short $600 in his accounts. will
not be prosecuted, it is said, friends having ar-
ranged to settle the matter. . !
—Two women, three men and a boy have been
arrested in Johnstown charged with looting var-
ious stories in that city. A quantity of goods
missed by some of the merchants was found in
satchels owned by the women.
—Isadore Finkelstein, accused of robbing
Johnstown relatives of jewelry valued at $7,000
last December, has been arrested and lodged in
the county jail at Ebensburg, to await trial. It
is believed he will confess and submit.
—Sheriff Charles F, Hochard, of Somerset
county, went to New York to secure one W. A.
Coleman, accused by the Citizen’s National bank
of Windber, of forgery. He got him as far as
Gallitzin when the prisoner leaped from the train
and disappeared.
—George Datz, a resident of Latrobe, is in the
hospital at that place suffering from a bullet
wound in the right thigh, received during a
scuffle with two men who tried to rob him. One
Mike Balotsky is under arrest, charged with par-
ticipating in the assault.
—The next annual session of the Central Penn-
sylvania conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church will be held in the Eighth Avenue church
of that denomination, beginning March 15. Bish-
op Earl Cranston, of Washington, D. C., the sen-
ior bishop of the church, will preside.
—By the overturning of a motor car about two
miles from Jersey Shore last Sunday night Mrs.
Mollie MacDonald, of Lock Haven, received in-
juries. She sustained a broken hip, a fractured
collar bone and a number of broken ribs. It is
feared she received serious internal injuries.
—Constable James C. Caldwell, of Derry, is laid
up at his home with one of his cheek bones
crushed in, and in a dazed condition, the result
of an assault committed late Wednesday night
S€ | when he was returning to his home from an un-
successful search for an offending mountaineer.
—Williamsport and some other cities of the
State are wondering if they are to be mayorless
during the month of December, the term of the
present mayors expiring apparently on the first
Monday in December while their successors are
not to be inaugurated until January. Worse evils
could befall them.
—Lives of fifteen men were endangered the
other night, when a massive steam pipe 100 feet
inlength and 30 inches in diameter, exploded in
the furnace room of the Johnstown Traction
company’s power plant, at Johnstown. No one
was hurt, but the explosion created a panic in
the neighborhood.
—Because his wife loved the movies better
than her home, John L. Deeler, of Rockefeller
township, Northumberland county, has brought
suit for divorce. He says she would harness up
their white mule and go to Sunbury as many
nights as possible, leaving their two children,
one a babe, in his care.
—Judge F. J. O’Connor will soon be able to
leave the Mercy hospital and return to his home
on Stoneycreek street if he continues to improve
at the same ratio as he has during the last week.
The judge has been able to leave his bed daily for
the last several days and has suffered no relapse
of any sort as a consequence.
—Ablert Neidenrider, manager of a Clarion
county creamery, was probably fatally injured
when he was struck by a fragment of a milk sep-
arator which exploded while running at a speed
of 7,000 revolutions a minute. The right side of
his face was torn off, his right leg broken near
the thigh and serious internal injuries inflicted,
—Lena Baroni, aged 16, an Austrian girl living
near Listie, Somerset county, was electrocuted
while climbing a fence near her home. She came
in contact with a section of loose telephone wire
one end of which was hanging across a high
tension transmission line of the Penn Electric
company. Somebody’s carelessness caused her
death.
—Charles Mattern, Mt. Carmel, on Monday
brought suit in the Northumberland county
court seeking to recover $10,000 damages from
the Susquehanna Coal company, for the loss of
his son, Bromewell Mattern, 18 years old, who
was squeezed to death between cars at its Scott
colliery near Mt. Carmel in 1912. Negligence is
alleged. .
—The body of James F. McInerney, of Renovo,
was found wedged between two ties on the
Queen’s Run bridge last Sunday evening. The
man had been an inmate of the Lock Haven hos-
pital recently and itis believed he wandered on
the bridge while suffering from aberration of
mind. He was 37 years of age and leaves two
children.
—The promoters of a side degree to the New
Millport castle, Knights of the Golden Eagle,
accidentally broke the neck of Leon Reed, of
near Olanta, while initiating him. They were
tossing him in a blanket when he struck the
floor with his head and shoulders so heavily as
to cause the fatality. He breathed his last thirty-
six hours later.
—Roland Bechtel, a well known resident of
DuBois, employed as a brakeman on the B. R.
& P. railroad, while attempting to: couple the
engine to his train was caught between the draw-
heads and so badly crushed about the waist that
he died soon after the accident and before reach-
ing the hospital. He was 23 years old andis
survived by his wife and two small sons, one
only ten days old.
—The post office at Saxton was broken into
late Saturday night and sufficient explosive was
used in opening the safe to wreck the entire
building of the First National bank adjoining.
After a thorough search it was learned that not
even a postage stamp was missing but parts of
the safe were blown through the ceiling. An in-
vestigation is being made but as yet no trace of
the miscreants have been found.
—Charles Anderson, aged 25, of Westville,
Jefferson county, went hunting with three other
young men last Thursday. Anderson stopped to
rest beside a log. As he drew his gun upward
to lace the butt on the log the trigger
guard struck a knot and the weapon was dis-
charged, the charge tearinga gaping hole in his
right side. He was hurried to the DuBois hos-
pital wherehe died that evening.
—Joseph McHugh, of Weatherly, state game
warden for Carbon county, was shot and killed
by one of a party of five unknown illegal hunters
whom he attempted to arrest in the woods near
Hazel Creek Monday. When asked to surrender
their weapons, one of the men raised his gun and
fired at McHugh, who died shortly afterward.
McHugh’s assailant tried. to shoot William
Brown, who was with the warden, but the charge
failed to go off. The huntersdisappeared in the
direction of Drifton, a mining village.
—The officials of the Aetna Powder com-
pany, which has built an expensive plant near
Newton Hamilton, have appealed to Sheriff T. S
VanZandt, of Mifflin county, in an effort to break
up the speakeasies that exist in close proximity.
They say powder making is dangerous and the
use of booze is a menace to both men and corpo-
ration. They have already surrounded the plant
with a high wire fence covered by guards day
and night, with a strong search light continually
playing over it. Sheriff VanZandt says the
trouble is to be found in Mt. Union, which is
across the Huntingdon county line.